Dual Syntax for XML Languages

Claus Brabrand; Anders Møller; Michael Ignatieff Schwartzbach

doi:10.1007/11601524_2

Dual Syntax for XML Languages

Claus Brabrand, Anders Møller, Michael Ignatieff Schwartzbach

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Abstract

XML is successful as a machine processable data interchange format, but it is often too verbose for human use. For this reason, many XML languages permit an alternative more legible non-XML syntax. XSLT stylesheets are often used to convert from the XML syntax to the alternative syntax; however, such transformations are not reversible since no general tool exists to automatically parse the alternative syntax back into XML. We present XSugar, which makes it possible to manage dual syntax for XML languages. An XSugar specification is built around a context-free grammar that unifies the two syntaxes of a language. Given such a specification, the XSugar tool can translate from alternative syntax to XML and vice versa. Moreover, the tool statically checks that the transformations are reversible and that all XML documents generated from the alternative syntax are valid according to a given XML schema.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Database Programming Languages : 10th International Workshop, DBPL 2005, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Number of pages	14
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2005
Pages	27-41
ISBN (Print)	3-540-30951-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11601524_2
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	Database Programming Languages. DBPL '05 - Trondheim, Norway Duration: 28 Aug 2005 → 29 Aug 2005 Conference number: 10

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Conference	Database Programming Languages. DBPL '05
Number	10
Country/Territory	Norway
City	Trondheim
Period	28/08/2005 → 29/08/2005

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	3774
ISSN	0302-9743

Keywords

XML transformation
non-XML syntax
reversible
bidirectional

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Brabrand, C, Møller, A & Schwartzbach, MI 2005, Dual Syntax for XML Languages. in Database Programming Languages: 10th International Workshop, DBPL 2005, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3774, pp. 27-41, Database Programming Languages. DBPL '05, Trondheim, Norway, 28/08/2005. https://doi.org/10.1007/11601524_2

Dual Syntax for XML Languages. / Brabrand, Claus; Møller, Anders; Schwartzbach, Michael Ignatieff.
Database Programming Languages: 10th International Workshop, DBPL 2005, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, 2005. p. 27-41 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3774).

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